Cheap Hewlett Packard C4388B Colorado External Tape Drive (Electronics) (Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows NT) Price
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| PLATFORM: | Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows NT |
| CATEGORY: | Electronics |
| MANUFACTURER: | Hewlett Packard |
| FEATURES: | Install Assistant software, One-Button Backup for full-system backup, Automated, scheduled backup option, Tape Librarian to quickly locate a specific file, Two-year limited warranty, HP Standard Exchange |
| TYPE: | Removable Storage Drives - External, Hewlett-Packard, HP, C4398B, Tape Backup Drive (Back-Up Drives), Hewlett Packard (Hewlett-Packard), (HP), (Hewlet Packart) |
| MEDIA: | Electronics |
| MPN: | C4388B |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 088698635414 |
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Customer Reviews of Hewlett Packard C4388B Colorado External Tape Drive
Will not work with Windows XP, no 'patch' available This product will not work with Windows XP. I've contacted HP and they referred me to their third party software development company for an update to the software. The third party software company does not respond to my e-mail inquiry when the upgrade will be ready. According to HP representative, HP had expected the upgrade to be available by Christmas, 2001.
Don't buy HP tape drives
I've had one of these for a while now. It's broken 2 tapes. It regularly fails to complete a backup due to errors. The backup software is not compatible with Windows ME and to use 98 they recommended I pay another $30 for an upgrade. It you plan on keeping data backed-up for a while, I wouldn't use HPs.
Of course I have a used one for sale, if you're looking for one.
Be very careful about disaster recovery capabilities
I have the internal version. Be careful about buying a device for complete computer backup and disaster recovery. The backup software my tape drive came with requires three things for restoring your computer hard drive from scratch: 1)diskette you can create easily 2) Backup media, your tape 3)MICROSOFT WINDOWS CDROM.
#3 means what it says, Microsoft Windows. NOT A MANUFACTURES RESTORATION CD THAT COMES WITH SOME BRANDS OF COMPUTERS. You need software that is in the Windows CD, and is not in the system cdrom. Compaq and HP do NOT provide this Windows cdrom, but a disk with "everything on it to restore the computer". True, it will restore your computer to original factory state, but not your own data or new installations since new.
So, in my case, my HP tape drive could not back up my HP computer for complete disaster recovery. I found out the hard way. If you have a Windows Upgrade CDROM, you may be in luck. I had to get special software that RUNS UNDER DOS to back up my system to CDROM and another internal hard drive.
Love my computer, and computer support from HP, but the HP Colorado is useless to me.